Thinking Big

October 14, 1985

AS A MEMBER of the dwarf community and president of the Central Florida Little People of America, I wonder if columnist Mike Royko, in his obsession with dwarf-tossing, would go so far as to say that ''a little bit goes a long way.''

Royko was discussing how an Australian tavern sport, in which the prize goes to the person who throws a dwarf the longest distance, would spread to Chicago in November.

Members of the LPA include doctors, psychologists, lawyers, pathologists and teachers. More than 40 percent of our members have college degrees. Our ranks include such talented actors as Billy Barty. The late Michael Dunne, who was a nominee for an Academy Award for his performance in Ship of Fools, was in our organization.

Royko mentions that an English dwarf, Lenny the Giant, says that ''being tossed wasn't nearly as degrading as working on an assembly line.'' Did Lenny's fellow workers feel degraded? Has Lenny compared the salary and tenure of work in assembling with being tossed about?

We dwarfs in LPA, instead of being tossed about, would rather ''keep looking up.'' Instead of being ridiculed, we would prefer to ''think big.''